PSG ticket prices - Protest options v West Brom.

[M18CTID]

I am sure this is the sort of thinking the rags at the swamp went through with their owners and they ended up still attending games and wearing a norwich scarf.

At the end of the day not buying season tickets and not attending games is the only thing clubs really take notice of, Manchester City Football Club seem to be on a pre-determined path that will inevitably alienate large swaths of the common people of manchester who have been their historic fan base,
This is just the latest step on that road, Sadly Mancunian accents are becoming rarer at the Etihad.

This is the worry going forward. I totally get that to be a global footballing power an inevitable side effect will see more non-local fans/tourists, etc, attracted to the club. If those fans want to spend shed loads of money in the souvenir shop then that's their prerogative and I'm not going to knock the club for wanting to make money off the back of that. They'd be stupid not to.

However, I somewhat naively thought until recently that the club also genuinely wanted to look after the hardcore fanbase in terms of making sure they don't get squeezed out and that going forward, both types of fan would be catered for but it seems that may not be the case after all.

The reason why I believe their thinking is bad business practice is that unlike some clubs, there aren't enough people to take the places of those long-standing fans that decide not to go.

 

[M18CTID]

Ive given it a shake and we still couldn't fill the ground even with all of the ticket deals the club has offered for CL games this season. The technical term is price elasticity.

But there would be a lot more buying tickets for this match if it was priced at £25-£45 instead of £40-£60. I'm astonished you can't see that. Believe me, they've misjudged this one hugely.

 

[Paul_Powers_Tash]

And that's the problem. They don't care any more. Many of us have stuck by this club through thick and thin, back when Sheikh Mansour was shitting in his nappies. And they don't care any more. We're just consumers to be "monitised". We even have a "Fan Engagement Officer" whose job is to do just that.

Well if you don't care that they don't care, that's fine. Drop your kecks, spread your arse cheeks and hope they've remembered the lube.

Anyone with a brain knew that that was the deal when the club was taken over by wealthy foreign owners. Did you object at the time or has the penny only just dropped now?

 

[blueparrot]

But there would be a lot more buying tickets for this match if it was priced at £25-£45 instead of £40-£60. I'm astonished you can't see that. Believe me, they've misjudged this one hugely.

Not, defend the prices in general but I reckon sales around 35000 -40000 now, and will be 50000 plus if we are still in the tie.

 

[moomba]

Cmon guys, if the sheik had said we are going to make city into a global brand but that it might mean higher ticket prices, would you have told them to fuck off and take your money elsewhere? We would still have bitten their hands off and you know it.... and it was inevitable the ticket prices would go up for bigger games, it,s a consequence and as long as we are on a par with other clubs prices I have no issues...

He didnt say that, and if he did say that his plan was to increase ticket prices year on year until many long term supporters could no longer afford to go I would have said no.

I'm a blue, I never needed us to win stuff for that to be worthwhile. FWIW I don't think it was ever the plan of the club to fleece the fans, but I do think people at the club have lost touch, and maybe don't have a good understanding for our supporter base. I also think the communication with the supporters is increasingly poor, had the statement they made the other day been a bit more conciliatory I don't think there would be the appetite for complaints as there is now.

Incidentally, this is what Sheikh Mansour did say

As part of that, we will absolutely spend time listening to you the fans about what you think about the future of the club. We are very aware that without you there would not be a club to buy, and your voice will be heard by the organisation at the highest level.

I may be naive, but I believe it is in the clubs best interests for us to make our feelings perfectly clear in whatever way possible. It's something the club should welcome as well as all of our supporters.

 

[Silva2021]

But there would be a lot more buying tickets for this match if it was priced at £25-£45 instead of £40-£60. I'm astonished you can't see that. Believe me, they've misjudged this one hugely.

£25 for CL Quater final is very cheap

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Anyone with a brain knew that that was the deal when the club was taken over by wealthy foreign owners. Did you object at the time or has the penny only just dropped now?

I've written on a number of occasions that we weren't comparable to other big clubs in terms of seat revenue so I fully expected prices to rise and the mix of seating, with a bigger focus on corporate/premium seating (because that's where you make the money pro-rata). My season ticket has gone up something like 60% in 7 years and I've paid it. We're pretty well on a par with Liverpool now in terms of revenue per seat which, given the respective size of our fan-bases, is pretty damn good I'd say.

But back in 2008 the man who bought the club said some things when he wrote an open letter to us. Here it is in full:
http://www.mcfc.co.uk/news/club-news/archive/2008/september/a-letter-from-sheikh-mansour/1246100627

Let's pick out a few bits.

As part of that, we will absolutely spend time listening to you the fans about what you think about the future of the club. We are very aware that without you there would not be a club to buy, and your voice will be heard by the organisation at the highest level.

Well they've listened. Kevin Parker & the 1894 Group have spoken to Danny Wilson, expressing their concerns, and the club response was "Tough titty".

I am a football fan, and I hope that you will soon see that I am now also a Manchester City fan. But I am also a long-term investor and that is probably more important to the club and to you because it means we are here for the long haul and that we will act always in the best interests of the club and all of its stakeholders, but especially you the fans.

The majority think that he, or more precisely his executive team, is not acting in the best interest of the fans.

 

[Paul_Powers_Tash]

But there would be a lot more buying tickets for this match if it was priced at £25-£45 instead of £40-£60. I'm astonished you can't see that. Believe me, they've misjudged this one hugely.

I get the logic but why didn't the same people take up the various ticket offers for previous rounds? Are our ticket prices in line with the rest of football or more expensive? Are our fans poorer than the rest of football fans? From where I see it our owners have lavished £100's millions bringing some of the best talent in the world to our previously mediocre team. They have invested £100's millions in developing East Manchester through regeneration projects. They have built the finest academy in the world on our doorstep thereby helping local talent and generating real new jobs and are soon to bring us the "best manager in the world". I don't know about you but I think we should be incredibly grateful.

For Prestwich Blue and his friends on here that's not enough. That group want to have heavily discounted tickets and a seat on the board so that City could be like it used to be in "the good old days". The phrase "there is no pleasing some people" is being taken to new heights.

Football ticket pricing is a football issue not a just a City issue. Let's not be the idiots making the headlines by protesting against our club.

 

[moomba]

I get the logic but why didn't the same people take up the various ticket offers for previous rounds?

A lot of people have stopped going to cup games because the price of season tickets has risen consistently at a time when wages generally havent.

 

[moomba]

For Prestwich Blue and his friends on here that's not enough. That group want to have heavily discounted tickets and a seat on the board so that City could be like it used to be in "the good old days". The phrase "there is no pleasing some people" is being taken to new heights.

Surely every football supporter should want tickets to be as cheap as possible, especially when there has never been as much money floating around the game. You make it sound like we should be ashamed.